Industrial chemicals are of great demand for various industries relying on it. Let's have a look at most important industrial chemicals and their properties.

1. Industrial Chemicals
Properties That Matters

2. Chemical industry has been
growing rapidly over the years.

3. What Sectors Are Dependent & Get
Benefits Out Of It?
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Service Sectors
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Consumer Goods Sector
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Construction Sector
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Agriculture Sector
....Many More

4. Let us have a look at some
of the common industrial chemicals used in
industries

5. Ammonia: Used as a scrubbing
solvent for removing pollutants from the
combustion streams of fossil fuels because
being released into the atmosphere.

6. Sodium Hydroxid: An
alkaline substance used in soap and dyes
manufacturing. Being a good cleansing agent,
it can also be used for neutralizing acids.

7. Phosphoric Acid: Mainly
used in the production of fertilizer. Also used
in the manufacturing of food products and
soft drinks.

8. Chlorine: Used for manufacturing
titanium dioxide and bleaching agents.

9. Sodium Carbonate: Used
in glass making and in the manufacturing of
many cleansing agents. Also known as soda
ash, it can be mined from the trona ore, or
can be manufactured by reacting sulfuric acid
and salt.

10. Nitrobenzene: Primarily used
for the manufacturing of aniline, used as a
rubber additive for preventing oxidation.

11. Aluminum Sulfate: Used
in wastewater and paper treatment industries
as pH buffer.

12. Nitric Acid: Most commonly
used to react with ammonia to form solid
fertilizer ammonium nitrate.

13. Urea: Commonly used in the production
of fertilizers. Some can also be used in
manufacturing of livestock feed.

14. Benzene: Benzene is used as a
reactant for producing cumene and
ethylbenzene. It is also a common organic
solvent as a precursor for cyclohexane.

15. Vinyl Chloride: Monomer
form of PVC or polyvinyl chloride, it is used
as a building material.

16. Methanol: Used as reactant for
the making of methyl tertbutyl ether, acetic
acid and formaldehyde.

17. Xylene: Primarily used for
manufacturing phthalic anhydride, used for
making a variety of polymers and
plasticizers. Xylene is also used for
manufacturing terephthalic acid, the
polyester feedstock.

18. Terephthalic Acid:
Exclusively used in the manufacturing of
polyester or polyethylene terephthalate
(PET).

19. Hydrochloric Acid:
Mainly used in the production of other
chemicals by acting as a catalyst of reactant.
Also used in the pickling of steel and also in
the pharmaceutical industry.

20. Acetic Acid: Primarily used for
the manufacturing of vinyl acetate monomer
and acetic anhydride.

21. Phenol: Used for manufacturing of
phenolic resins, caprolacturm and bispenol­A.